Pennsylvania Game News - November 2012 - 34

training School — Before  being  offered  a  position  as  a  Cadet,  one  of  my  biggest supporters and person who wanted  to see me get in was my grandpa Emmert  “Sneezy” Snyder. He’s been an avid reader  of Game	News for many more years than  I’ve been around. So this Note goes out to  you, Grandpa, the first directed to you in all  those years of avidly reading Field Notes. — Cadet Steven KniCKel, HarriSburg One  day  last  spring  I  noticed  a  hen  pheasant along the road with seven chicks.  I drove a quarter mile down the road and a  doe with two fawns crossed in front of me.  I  drove  200  yards  farther  down  the  road  and  standing  in  a  field  was  a  hen  turkey  with 10 poults. It’s nice to have any one of  these encounters during a day, but to have  all in a half mile stretch of road is special. — lMO Jeffery t. Kendall, neW CaStle

Here’s One for You, Sneezy

Productive Spring

allegheny — I’m always trying to learn  new things and encourage my kids to do the  same. I wasn’t aware that my beagle, Charlie, was listening. I guess he’s getting tired  of rabbits and wants to expand to birds. — WCO betH a. fife, SOutH ParK Fulton — James  Wilson  of  Waterfall  recently had a large bear pull out a lawnmower  from  a  storage  area  and  snatch  a  50-pound sack of cracked corn. The bruin  dragged it across the road into the woods  and  ate  the  entire  bag.  Jim  commented  that the least the bear could have done was  mowed the grass before being fed. — WCO Kevin MOuntz, Waterfall

For the Birds

Freeloader

adamS — During  the  summer  a  small  bear  caused  quite  a  stir  in  Littlestown.  It was spotted walking down some major  streets in town, behind the post office and  then  by  patrons  of  the  local  bar.  I  never  got to see the bear, but everyone in town  said it must have been a male because it  had to stop to get a drink at the bar after  it picked up its mail. — WCO Kevin anderSOn, littleStOWn
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That Hurt

lebanon — Once  last  year  and  twice  this year I have responded to Spang Crest  Manor in Lebanon to remove a hen mallard  and her brood. So far she has produced 35  young in the closed courtyard. — WCO MiCHael J. reeder, PalMyra cambria — Nuisance bear calls during  the summer were concentrated around the  city of Northern Cambria, so it would be  worthwhile  for  hunters  to  scout  out  the  area. I removed several large males in the  450-pound range that will most likely be  back in the area during bear season. — WCO SHaWn HarSHaW, nanty glO
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